Re: So Whatcha use perl for anyway?

A more concise, but less fun, question would be, "What don't you use Perl for?" The lists would be much shorter. :)

Blog platform (in Catalyst).
Parsing data from diving websites and writing into Excel sheets.
Server health checkups.
Converting broken, nasty Project Gutenberg HTML to clean XHTML and automatically posting it.
Ajax forms and user voting.
Jokes, like Acme::LOLCAT.
RSS/Atom writing and reading.
Automatic tear down and rebuilding of databases; DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader + DBICx::Deploy.
Reminder emails.
Date counters and parsers.
Graphing weblog stats.
Filtering mixed text+html perfectly to clean XHTML with DWIM paragraphs and newlines.
Perl code coloring.
Chat server.
Typographical auto-markup; e.g., (r) --> Ž.
RTF --> HTML.
CSS collapsing and style inlining.
Perl controlled rsync as part of build scripts.
Colored XHTML document revision diffs.
Tax calculators.
Order tracking and manipulation.
Language translation services.
Search engines; raw, metaphone, vector.
DB --> YAML --> DB.
MP3 manipulation.
Image stamping.
Et cetera, et cetera

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Re^2: So Whatcha use perl for anyway? by Sixtease (Friar) on Nov 23, 2007 at 19:48 UTC
Language translation services. I'm intrigued. Are you developing a machine translation system?	[reply]
Re^3: So Whatcha use perl for anyway? by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Nov 23, 2007 at 20:28 UTC
That's probably a bit out of my depth. :) I'm tying into a human language translation API. Korean --> German kind of thing.	[reply]
Re^2: So Whatcha use perl for anyway? by KurtSchwind (Chaplain) on Nov 24, 2007 at 14:13 UTC
`"Perl code coloring."` What is that? -- I used to drive a Heisenbergmobile, but every time I looked at the speedometer, I got lost.	[reply]
Re^3: So Whatcha use perl for anyway? by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Nov 24, 2007 at 20:28 UTC
Sorry, that's nondescript. XHTML/CSS syntax coloring to display Perl code. I've done it with Syntax::Highlight::Perl -- did a very buggy version with perltidy once -- in the past and PPI in the last year or so. I know that Jonathan Rockway's Angerwhale does generic syntax coloring of many different languages (it's based on a package, the name of which eludes me right now). I keep meaning to look into it.	[reply]